Capitol Hill Riot

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough is so enthralled by Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries' description of congressional as a "malignant clown show" that he repeats it multiple times.

Bianna Golodryga hosted Wednesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. (airing on CNN International and tax-funded PBS) and commiserated with William Cohen, former “Republican” Defense Secretary to Democratic president Bill Clinton, about the awful state of the Republican Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s third indictment: "So given what you have just laid out, on top of news,…

Alicia Menendez, substitute hosting for Nicolle Wallace on her MSNBC show, claims, without evidence, that Donald Trump "squirms and sweats"  over the news that special counsel Jack Smith has sent a letter informing him that he is a target of the investigation into the events of January 6th. Menendez offered no evidence in support of her squirming and sweating assertion. Given that Trump's…

Amid Wednesday’s extensive coverage of the new target letter for former President Trump’s January 6th case on CNN This Morning, anchor Phil Mattingly asked CNN political commentator Van Jones about the delay in prosecutions for the cases. Jones claimed that there was a “two tier justice system, and Trump is benefitting from it,” providing several comical alternate examples in an…

Joe Scarborough twice complained about Donald Trump being free to fly around in his 757 jet while some of his working-class supporters are in jail in connection with January 6th.

While NPR couldn’t find time on its programs for a full story on the failed Secret Service investigation of cocaine found at the White House, it ran two Folkenflik stories publicizing January 6 protester Ray Epps suing Fox News for defamation. Five of his last seven reports are critical of Fox News.

The tax-funded PBS NewsHour marked the Independence Day holiday in its own inimitable style by trying to tie the patriotic celebration to right-wing extremism and the January 6 Capitol Hill riots. Congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins sat down with two liberal professors to decry the dangers of the right wing on Tuesday evening. Host Amna Nawaz set the scene for PBS’s attempt to…

MSNBC analyst Glenn Kirschner suggests Donald Trump should be jailed during trial because of the "danger to the community" and "threat" he poses.

On her MSNBC show on Sunday, Katie Phang denounces Fox News and CNN for scheduling townhalls with Donald Trump and Mike Pence. She goes further, suggesting that no Republican presidential candidates should be given airtime.  As she plaintively put it to a former Dem congresswoman: "What does it tell you that there are media outlets that are providing platforms for potential GOP primary…

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig poured cold water on the giddy speculation Trump could be convicted of sedition, saying: "the prosecutors do not have evidence at hand linking the effort of the Proud Boys to Donald Trump. They do not have this smoking gun evidence that shows that Donald Trump was directing an effort to violently…

On Morning Joe, Michael Steele criticizes the Fox News culture for the lack of immediate corporate repercussions for Tucker Carlson having written in a private communication to a colleague that the way some January 6th rioters beat up an Antifa guy isn't "how white men fight."  Steele ignores the fact that last year, show host Joe Scarborough bragged about how, unprovoked, he would beat up a…

When we list the types of media bias, one of them has always been Bias by Story Selection. When 60 Minutes devoted a softball segment to January 6 rioter Ray Epps on Sunday, the question was why him? And why now? Why did the media obsess over January 6 for two years and never get to this?

During the media-wide prostration over New York City Tuesday for former President Trump’s arrest and arraignment, a White House press briefing took place and reporters such as The New York Times’s Michael Shear called out Jean-Pierre and President Biden for the double standard in refusing to weigh into some but not all criminal probes.

On Friday’s CBS Mornings, there were numerous rhetorical finger-wags at Republicans for the crime of denouncing far-left, Soros-backed Manhattan DA’s indictment of former President Trump concerning the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels with one implication being they’re poor caretakers of our democracy and “adding fuel” to potential violence.